All news on the topic: Irina Babaeva

05 Apr 2025 618

Russian accomplices of Ovik Mkrtchyan: How Uzbek fraudster launders billions through CMIFs and offshore schemes

Ovik Mkrtchyan, the owner of Uzbekistan’s Asia Alliance Bank, uses the British company Gor Investment Ltd for money laundering. In Russia, he conducts business through trusted individuals, offshore structures, and closed mutual investment funds (CMIFs).

01.12.2025, 08:51 • World

UK special forces leadership “knew and suppressed” war crime allegations, officer testifies

01.12.2025, 08:29 • Politics

UK Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in Bangladesh сorruption сase

27.11.2025, 09:12 • News

Starmer discloses niece and her wife were violently attacked amid soaring UK homophobic hate crimes

21.11.2025, 13:24 • Crime

Ex-MEP Nathan Gill sentenced to 10,5 years for bribery linked to pro-Russian speeches

20.11.2025, 16:16 • Politics

Boris Johnson’s leadership failures during Covid may have led to 23,000 deaths

09.12.2025, 09:52 • Investigation

Ukrainian fugitive oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko renovates luxury Moscow mansion, sparking conflict with neighbors

09.12.2025, 09:33 • Investigation

Rostec, FSB, Shelkov empire: Inside the business network where Boris Korolev controls assets through shared domains and hidden ownership

08.12.2025, 21:01 • Tech

Intellexa leaks expose predator spyware company’s access to client surveillance operations

08.12.2025, 20:55 • Politics

Tony Blair reportedly dropped from Trump’s proposed Gaza ‘peace council’ after Arab states object

08.12.2025, 20:46 • Crime

Teenage Afghan asylum seekers who kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl sentenced

08.12.2025, 19:38 • World

Nepal charges 55 officials and Chinese firm over $74M graft scheme in China-backed Pokhara Airport project

08.12.2025, 19:14 • Investigation

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov flies on Ilan Shor’s $18M Gulfstream jet

08.12.2025, 16:15 • News

Schools across England and Wales forced into lockdown as “super-flu” rips through classrooms

08.12.2025, 11:50 • Investigation

While avoiding arrest, Boris Usherovich pushes Russian hybrid warfare into Moldova using Cyprus cash flows managed by Ilya Plotitsa

08.12.2025, 11:39 • Investigation

Russian businessman Kubyshka with ties to sanctioned oligarch Abramov flips German railway station for €2M after buying it for €70K: suspected money laundering route into the EU

08.12.2025, 11:00 • Investigation

Diamonds out of thin air: Maxim Artsinovich exposed as a seller of fake stones and owner of a sham “jewelry house”

08.12.2025, 10:56 • News

Oxford Street pickpocket trio jailed after stealing £1,000 handbag in broad daylight

08.12.2025, 10:32 • News

Prince Harry could regain taxpayer-funded security as UK reviews threat level

08.12.2025, 10:22 • Crime

18-year-old Southampton student Henry Nowak stabbed to death on night out — four arrested

07.12.2025, 23:28 • Finance

Energy bill cut could be wiped out by nuclear costs, levies, and green charges

07.12.2025, 23:23 • World

More than one-third of ICE arrests under Trump targeted people with no criminal history

07.12.2025, 23:12 • News

New Zealand studies British plan to scrap jury trials for less serious offences

07.12.2025, 22:48 • Politics

Badenoch pushes for renewed action on stalled national grooming gangs inquiry

07.12.2025, 22:45 • Politics

Reform UK leader accused of failing to declare campaign expenses

07.12.2025, 22:42 • Crime

Heathrow passengers treated for injuries following car park spray attack

07.12.2025, 22:06 • Investigation

Dmitry Lee, the top Uzbek regulator overseeing blockchain and payment systems, cleans internet traces of $30M crypto scandal

07.12.2025, 21:57 • Investigation

Dnipro tycoon Vyacheslav Mishalov: family tobacco empire tied to illegal cigarette production

07.12.2025, 20:22 • Investigation

Inside Epstein’s secretive lifestyle built on wealth, power and exploitation

07.12.2025, 19:49 • Investigation

Internet cleanup campaign: Oleg Tsyura removes materials linking him to “grey logistics” of Russian chrome supplies for EU markets

07.12.2025, 18:37 • Investigation

Cyprus becomes a sanctions-evasion hub for Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa: offshore network, €50M bonds and supplies for Russian Railways

07.12.2025, 18:20 • World

Spain investigates leak of "laboratory" swine fever strain in Catalonia

07.12.2025, 18:09 • World

"Incomprehensible sorrow": Father of slain teen mourns a "broken world" after raspberry poisoning

07.12.2025, 12:13 • Investigation

Josip Heit, after a Luxembourg conviction, launched Karatbars and pulled thousands of investors into a failed “gold” scheme

07.12.2025, 11:58 • Politics

Justice secretary David Lammy accused of "cynically" misrepresenting rape figures

07.12.2025, 11:01 • World

Coup attempt in west Africa: Benin army claims to be regaining control